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Re:The Pentagon is battling the clock to fix serious, unrepo... by alexhutcheson on Thursday June 13, 2019 @12:18PM (#20176306)
Isn't pretty much any environment that's permissive enough for an A-29 also permissive enough for AH-64s and AH-1s?
Re:The Pentagon is battling the clock to fix serious, unrepo... by azernik on Thursday June 13, 2019 @11:29PM (#20180393)
Sure - better at keeping to terrain masking. However, the A-29 has far superior performance; in fact, it was originally designed as a helicopter hunter. It has a maximum speed 60% higher, can take almost twice as much payload, and a substantially longer range. In the context of the asymmetric wars the US actually finds itself in, the A-29 is a very good platform.